Source: Wells Family GoFundMe / Screenshot On Wednesday, Nolan Wells’ family met with Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath and agreed to inspect his phone together. According to AP, the agreement comes after the family previously alleged that messages on Nolan’s phone had been deleted before they got it back. Ben Crump, the family’s […]
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Source: Katelyn Mulcahy / Getty There is an old saying that when white America catches a cold, Black America catches the flu. It is a piece of wisdom that crystallizes how a broader systemic shift at the top of a hierarchy often results in the deepest harm to Black communities. This reality is currently impacting […]
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Source: Gary Hershorn / Getty Watching MAGA conservatives crash out over the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold birthright citizenship has been interesting in a comical sort of way, because it’s like they just discovered this century-and-a-half-old constitutional amendment when President Donald Trump made it his mission to end it, and they talk about it […]
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Source: Long Time History / Screenshot Look, I’m a firm believer that America isn’t the way it is because President Donald Trump is president; President Donald Trump is president because America is the way it is. However, that doesn’t mean the racist, xenophobic, and generally bigoted white nationalists who put him in office twice aren’t […]
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June is Black Music Month, and NewsOne has been celebrating all month long. Stephen Hill, former president of programming for BET, sat down with us to speak on what he believes is the “sauce of soul music.” “The sauce of soul music is that there’s always love present,” Hill says at the start of the […]
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Source: Family of Kohen Kartier Wiley / Family of Kohen Wiley A 1-year-old Black baby is dead in Mississippi. His name was Kohen Wiley. Before he was shot, his mother lifted him up so police officers could see there was a child in the car. This mother’s desperate act was supposed to be proof of […]
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Source: Drew Anthony / facebook In May 1916, in Waco, Texas, 17-year-old Jesse Washington was convicted of murder and rape during a one-hour trial in which his feckless attorney offered no defense. The courtroom had already done its work and named him guilty after deliberating for only four minutes. But Washington’s conviction and death sentence […]
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Source: Video Screenshot / Screenshot Last October, we reported that an employee at Chicago’s WGN TV station was temporarily detained during a U.S. Customs and Border Protection operation in Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood, resulting in video footage going viral that showed the employee being forced to the ground by two agents, whom she can be heard identifying […]
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Source: Ladanifer / Getty In November 1910, one year after its founding, the NAACP launched its official communications hub, The Crisis magazine, which documented lynching, disenfranchisement, segregation, racial terror, and the everyday humiliations of Jim Crow. Its founding editor, the civil rights activist and child advocate W.E.B. Du Bois, featured a drawing of a Black […]
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Source: Unique Nicole / Getty DEK: The Boys [Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Boys season five] After six years and a cornucopia of blood, guts, and various other bodily fluids, The Boys came to a close on Wednesday night. While season five’s plotting was a bit rushed and scattershot, I still think it was one […]
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Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune / Getty On Monday, two teenagers opened fire at an Islamic center in San Diego, killing three adults, including a security guard. The identities of the shooters, who died from self-inflicted bullet wounds, have not been made public, but the shooting is being investigated as a hate crime, which suggests […]
Read MoreSource: peshkov / Getty When does the federal government protect us, and when does it get in the way? Whatever the right balance is, the Trump administration and its yes-men in Congress and on the Supreme Court are doing the exact opposite. The proposal they are pushing on AI proves how far backward they want […]
Read MoreSource: Gado / Getty Free speech in America has never fully belonged to Black Americans. The tools used to silence us have changed in how they appear over time, but the logic underneath them hasn’t. In 1740, the South Carolina Negro Act codified white supremacy and made it a crime to teach an enslaved Black […]
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Source: Mirror Indy / Getty Indiana’s primary elections on Tuesday will be a true test of President Donald Trump’s influence amid his tumbling poll numbers. While in normal times, state-level primaries that may only get 10,000 votes aren’t national news, these races have become notable because Trump endorsed challengers to seven of the eight Republican […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty On some level, President Donald Trump must realize he’s one wall short of a whole hallway, right? Like — he knows his elevator fails to go all the way to the top and instead, hovers around the 13th floor that doesn’t exist in reality, doesn’t he? Just like a non-racist doesn’t […]
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At a time when some weaponize faith for political gain, Rev. Stephen A. Green offers a compelling vision of community, accountability, and radical love through the liberating gospel of Jesus. Serving as senior pastor of The Greater Allen A.M.E Cathedral of New York, Rev. Green unpacked what it means to bring “the Bible and the […]
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Source: valentinrussanov / Getty Despite claims that America is the land of free speech, activist groups of a certain persuasion have spent plenty of time trying to get books banned for being too Black, too queer, or both. To mark National Library Week, the American Library Association (ALA) released its list of the most challenged […]
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Source: karandaev / Getty As Congress deliberates the fate of the controversial Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Black communities know the devastating impact of government surveillance and invasion of privacy. The last thing Trump needs is for Congress to make it easier for him to steal our rights and punish those […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Last month, it was widely reported that Secretary of Defense (or War, or whatever) Pete Hegseth was making troops, including current and former military leaders, nervous by breaking long-standing military norms by constantly invoking his Christian faith, especially during a time of war. It turns out that when a white nationalist […]
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Source: J. Janice Coleman / facebook An English professor at the Mississippi HBCU Alcorn State University has sewn a quilt honoring civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. In an interview with Mississippi Today, Professor J. Janice Coleman explained her history with quilting and what led her to make a quilt honoring Fannie Lou Hamer. She […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Here’s a question all Americans need to be asking themselves right now: How bad does a U.S. president have to be for the president of Iran to be the leader standing on the moral high ground? On Wednesday night, President Donald Trump delivered a speech that was supposed to serve as […]
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Source: JIM WATSON / Getty When President Donald Trump declared, “We ended DEI” during his State of the Union address, two things became clear: his administration aimed to elevate white supremacy, and everyone who supported this regime shares the blame. “White people were very badly treated,” Trump told the New York Times earlier this year […]
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Source: – / Getty Since tensions with Iran escalated into war in recent weeks, a wave of viral posts has spread across social media claiming that Iran has signaled Black Americans would not be targeted in a potential conflict with the United States. The posts vary in tone but follow a similar pattern. Some present […]
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Source: Win McNamee / Getty When Donald Trump told voters he would keep America out of “stupid wars,” a lot of people heard what they wanted to hear. After two decades of flag-draped coffins and trillion-dollar occupations, the promise of restraint sounded downright revolutionary. And then we all woke up and remembered that Trump is […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Polls were already indicating that President Donald Trump is the most unpopular president of any of our lifetimes before his administration joined Israel in launching the deadly strikes against Iran that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and five other top Iranian officials, more than 150 Iranian civilians, and six U.S. […]
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Source: Douglas Sacha / Getty You know how the Trump administration keeps making the bold claim that, under President Donald Trump, the United States has retained its status as the most respected and beloved nation in the world? Sure, the president can’t even make a simple speech at the United Nations General Assembly without telling several […]
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Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty America loves to pretend historical progress is a relay race in which the past generation hands over all the freedoms they worked for to the next generation with a sweaty optimism and a Nell Carter smile. And then you realize that America isn’t a sitcom; it’s more like Game of […]
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